White on white, sprawled stark naked in a cut cornfield atop 1’ of snow, Tim Vander Zwaag stared into a clear night sky of stars and moon. Alone and violently shuddering in subzero temperatures, ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has eliminated a controversial and secretive program that arbitrarily singled out and delayed the issuance of certain patents. The agency did not make a formal ...

BERRIEN COUNTY — A Watervliet man was killed when his clothing became wrapped up in a tractor’s power takeoff and he was pulled into the equipment, according to Michigan State Police. This was called ...

Data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that patent applications steered into a secretive program are rejected twice as often as all patent applications, and those eventually issued take ...